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And that resulted in a nonprofit co-op in colorado going bankrupt and then what happened is the republicans said, see, obamacare has failed. but it was the critics of obamacare that had screwed it up and that s what is happening now with the insurance markets as well. you re hearing the insurers say that with this level of uncertainty about what we re going to be doing going forward, that they can t participate in these markets. what are you hearing from within the party about i know it s on the house side, not the senate side, but the forebodings, that now 4-4 the republicans have won these special elections and the expense of what of democrats spent, what both parties spent but in particular with what the democrats spent with nothing to show for it in georgia is pretty astounding. i m not sure what our party is saying about it. i will say that the election of ....
Means senators just want us to put more money in to make doctors happy and make these insurers happy. is your answer get more money and put it in? well, if we want to keep the promises that president trump made on the campaign trail, and retain the preexisting condition protection, and retain the medicaid expansion, that is going to cost more money. brian: right. one of the things that happened last year and i know this is technical but something called risk quarters which will put in place to protect insurance companies from losing money in the marketplaces was taken away. and so if that is taken away and the individual mandate is taken away, a lot of insurance executives say we can t make money in these marketplaces. that s part of what is going on. brian: when you say those risk corridors and one of the people who stopped is recall marco rubio. throwing more money at a program that not only do they not believe in was losing money to begin with the whole doctor fix, write taxpaye ....
One ex-campaign aide says they want details of his russia contacts, they will have to ask barack obama claiming the former president spied on him. we re back now with democratic congressman eric wall iswell of californ eric swallwell. i want to talk to you about this health care bill, the repeal and replace that the republicans passed just at this point. we know what democrats don t like about this. we know with the lowered protections for pre-existing conditions and less subsidies these are big areas of disagreement of course. i wonder as a democrat what are the areas that you think should be fixed because we do hear over and over for democrats that there are problems with obamacare so what would you like to see fixed? you know, there are areas in the country, brianna, where there s only one provider and i think making sure that there s, you know, more competition in those markets and, you know, putting back into place the risk corridors that allowed that. ....
Expansi expansion, it s a problem. the problems first arose when republicans eliminated the risk corridors that were in the law that allowed insurance companies to be reimbursed basically or protected neil: but you d be open for a fix for that. absolutely. neil: democrats are saying don t repeal it, right? just we can work together to fix it. don t try to kill it. absolutely. i think we absolutely have to fix the individual insurance market. neil: so do you see anything now, congressman, that republicans are doing? they re not getting rid of a lot of the features that you like. they say they re strengthening them. still they argue for pre-existing conditions. i know chuck schumer attacks that. but they re making it better. so what is the harm in trying to work with them to make it better? the only analysis of it has been by the cbo. they say 24 million fewer people have insurance. rates will go up significantly for older americans just shy of ....
It could be symbolic in the hours, because it s dead on arrival in the senate as usual. they have to pass a bill. they have made too many promises. there s no what about the idea that some supporters of people funded by the koch said to do this piece by piece by piece? i think that would be smarter. i think there are some things they could do through reconciliation, some things by executive order through tom price. other things that they can do legislatively through the appropriations process, such as risk corridors, the insurance company bailout. that was an appropriation measure. i was involved in it. i know you can do things like that to direct the funding. i do think they have to go home and say, here is what we did to address an issue in which we all ran. do you think the piecemeal idea, the koch brothers may be supporting of it, it will not sell well? i don t care if it sells well. if you are the republicans, you don t double down on a mistake. ....